Dehavilland DHC-2 MK.I
N218RD is a Dehavilland DHC-2 MK.I, a fixed-wing airplane with one motor with a piston engine, built in 1949. It has 8 seats. It is registered to Sunset Flying Service LLC, an LLC in Eagan, Minnesota. The registration is valid: it was issued on June 23, 2016 and expires on June 30, 2029. It holds a standard airworthiness certificate for normal, dated August 10, 2016.
Aircraft
- Maker
- Dehavilland
- Model
- DHC-2 MK.I · all DHC-2 MK.Is and related versions
- Serial number
- 50
- Type
- Fixed-wing, single engineFAA type of aircraft code 4 (the FAA's broad category for the airframe). All codes
- Power
- Piston (reciprocating)FAA type of engine code 1 (what powers it, as the FAA classes engines). All codes, 1 motor · P & W R-985-AN-14B · 400 hp
- Seats
- 8
- Year built
- 1949
- Transponder code
- A1D8B5 (octal 50354265)
Registration
- Status
- Valid registrationFAA registration status code V (whether the registration certificate is in force). All codes
- Certificate issued
- June 23, 2016
- Expires
- June 30, 2029
- Last FAA action
- August 11, 2023
- Airworthiness
- StandardFAA airworthiness class code 1 (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · NormalFAA certificate purpose code N (the kind of airworthiness certificate it flies under and what it is approved for). All codes · August 10, 2016
- FAA region
- Great LakesFAA region code C (the FAA regional office that handles the record). All codes
- FAA record id
- 01201402
Owner as the FAA publishes it
- Name
- Sunset Flying Service LLC
- Type
- LLCFAA type of owner code 7 (who holds the registration: a person, a company, a trust or a government body). All codes
- Address
- 837 Apollo Rd
Eagan, MN 55121-2243
Owners can ask the FAA to withhold their name and address from public files. When they do, those fields are blank here as well. How that works.
Documents on file 0
No bills of sale, loans or other documents are indexed against this tail number.
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The public federal record on N218RD, read the way a buyer, lender or insurer reads it: FAA registration, prior tail numbers keyed on the serial number, reuse of the tail number, recent registry filings, and the NTSB accident record under this and every earlier registration.
Valid registration to Sunset Flying Service LLC, an LLC, certificate issued June 23, 2016, expires June 30, 2029. No fractional interest recorded. [1]
The airworthiness certificate on file is dated August 10, 2016, 67 years after the 1949 manufacture year. A re-issued certificate commonly follows export and re-import, a rebuild, or a return to the register after cancellation. The cause is documented in the FAA aircraft records file, which the full report obtains. [1]
No earlier tail number is recorded against serial 50 for this model in the deregistered file. [2]
No other airframe has carried N218RD according to the deregistered file. [2]
No bills of sale, loans or releases have reached the registry in recent weeks. The index covers only recent filings; older liens are in the records file. [3]
1 NTSB record under N218RD: Accident on May 22, 2021 at Oak Island, MN: serious injuries, minor damage. Details below. [4]
These live in the FAA aircraft records file (every document ever filed against the aircraft) and, for larger aircraft, the International Registry. Part of the full report.
AD compliance against the logbooks and flight-activity reconciliation are researched layers of the full report.
NTSB records 1
Aircraft on the NTSB record: Dehavilland DHC-2 MK.I · operated under 091
The failure of an O-ring in the landing gear system, which resulted in the inadvertent extension of the main wheel in the amphibious float. Contributing to the accident was the pilot’s decision to depart with a known hydraulic leak in the landing gear system.
Full record in plain English · Docket and reports at the NTSB
- FAA Releasable Aircraft Database, master file, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA deregistered aircraft file (part of the same download), file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- FAA document index: registry documents received in recent weeks, file of October 2, 2026. registry.faa.gov/
- NTSB aviation accident database (CAROL), records through September 30, 2026. data.ntsb.gov/carol-main-public/basic-search
This automated check reads the public federal record. Nothing here is a legal opinion, an appraisal or a statement about the aircraft's condition; a CLEAR line is a statement about the searched record, not the aircraft.
Source: FAA Civil Aviation Registry, Releasable Aircraft Database, October 2, 2026. See this record on the FAA site · This record as data